Secondary mirror dusty

[Dannomiss]

Hi all, 

I wonder if anyone can help. The secondary mirror is pretty dusty mainly because of the heritage 150p design it's open... There's quite a bit of dust and a stray hair. Now I have read that you shouldn't clean this mirror, but will this effect the viewing experience? Or is there a safe way to clean or blow the dust off? 

Edited June 28, 2020 by Dannomiss

[CraigT82]

Shouldnt affect the views,  but you can just use a normel rocket blower to blow most of that off

[banjaxed]

I agree, that doesn't look like it would affect your views at all.

[Starwiz]

This was my primary a couple of weeks ago just before I cleaned it for the first time in about 10 years.  The secondary was just as dusty, but I'd been taking great images without any noticeable effects.

John

 

Edited June 29, 2020 by Starwiz